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.TH NLSREQUEST 3NSL "Nov 14, 2002"
.SH NAME
nlsrequest \- format and send listener service request message
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.nf
#include <listen.h>
\fBint\fR \fBnlsrequest\fR(\fBint\fR \fIfildes\fR, \fBchar \fR*\fIservice_code\fR);
\fBextern int\fR \fI_nlslogt_errno\fR;
\fBextern char\fR *\fI_nlsrmsg\fR;
.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION
.sp
.LP
Given a virtual circuit to a listener process (\fIfildes\fR) and a  service
code of a server process, \fBnlsrequest()\fR formats and sends a \fIservice
request message\fR to the remote listener process  requesting that it start the
given service.   \fBnlsrequest()\fR waits for the remote listener process to
return a \fIservice request response message\fR,  which is made available to
the caller in the static, null-terminated data buffer pointed to by
\fB_nlsrmsg\fR. The \fIservice request response message\fR includes a success
or failure code and a text message. The entire message is printable.
.SH RETURN VALUES
.sp
.LP
The success or failure code is the integer return code from \fBnlsrequest()\fR.
Zero indicates success, other negative  values indicate \fBnlsrequest()\fR
failures as follows:
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB\(mi1\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 9n
Error encountered by \fBnlsrequest()\fR, see \fBt_errno\fR.
.RE

.sp
.LP
Positive values are error return codes from the \fIlistener\fR process.
Mnemonics for these codes are defined in \fB<listen.h>\fR\&.
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB2\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 5n
Request message not interpretable.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB3\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 5n
Request service code unknown.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB4\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 5n
Service code known, but currently disabled.
.RE

.sp
.LP
If non-null, \fB_nlsrmsg\fR contains a pointer to a static, null-terminated
character buffer containing the \fIservice request response message\fR. Note
that both \fB_nlsrmsg\fR and the data buffer are overwritten by each call to
\fBnlsrequest()\fR.
.sp
.LP
If \fB_nlslog\fR is non-zero, \fBnlsrequest()\fR prints error messages on
stderr. Initially, \fB_nlslog\fR is zero.
.SH FILES
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB/usr/lib/libnls.so.1\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 24n
shared object
.RE

.SH ATTRIBUTES
.sp
.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp

.sp
.TS
box;
c | c
l | l .
ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
_
MT-Level	Unsafe
.TE

.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
.LP
.BR t_error (3NSL),
.BR t_rcv (3NSL),
.BR t_snd (3NSL),
.BR attributes (7),
.BR nlsadmin (8)
.SH WARNINGS
.sp
.LP
\fBnlsrequest()\fR cannot always be certain that the remote server process has
been successfully started.  In this case, \fBnlsrequest()\fR returns with no
indication of an error and the caller will receive notification of a disconnect
event by way of a \fBT_LOOK\fR error before or during the first \fBt_snd()\fR
or \fBt_rcv()\fR call.
.SH NOTES
.sp
.LP
These interfaces are unsafe in multithreaded applications.  Unsafe interfaces
should be called only from the main thread.
